Author: WhitneyD

The Promise of a Better King

Always and forever – two words that promise so much, yet rarely deliver. Lovers pledge these words in everything from Hallmark cards to wedding vows. BFFs make friendship pacts with these words and wear matching necklaces to prove it. My seven year old daughter uses these words when she pinky promises me

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Eighteen DAVID Translations… NOW AVAILABLE!

“When we go to an Indian village to do ministry we navigate for days and have to make stops along the way. We stop to eat or to sleep in different villages and many of them have a church. In every single stop we are asked to stay and teach

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A Love Like No Other

“Remember that one time when we were shopping and you lost Chase?” My kids are so generous to remind me of this stuff. They were 8, 7, 4, and 2 and it was two days before Christmas. I know, I know… December 23rd is not the day to power shop

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All of Me

I just said “no” to another media craze requested by my two teenagers this week. Since I feel like I say “no” a lot these days, I really do intentionally say “yes” when I can. This would be why we have a pet rat. Heh. I’ve evaluated these “no” answers

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Submitting to Authority God’s Way

“A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. I say: ‘Keep the king’s command, because of God’s oath to him.‘ Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king

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The Jesus we need…

“Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things – which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. See, this alone I found,

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God’s Got You

I recently oversaw a school assignment with a certain independent child in this house, and here’s pretty much how it went down: Me: “Hey, I’m pretty sure the instructions said to underline the words in those sentences instead of circling them.” Child:  No they didn’t. “Um, yep… they did. If

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Pride, Popularity, and the Pursuit of Ourselves

“Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was

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When God Is Left Out

The Bible never disguises how dark things are when God is left out. – Alistair Begg “Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?— only what he has already done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly

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